The bug was that it was saving the file used ASCII as its default encoding but when you double clicked to open it, it tries to guess the encoding, and used a differnet one (in this case it appears to be using Unicode.
If you open up notepad, go to file->open, browse for the file, then choose encoding of ANSI and click ok, it will open the file correctly.
Here is a blog on msdn that (sort of) talks about this issue: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/24/95235.aspx
Couldn't find many more references, but I know I've seen it discussed before.
Moral of the story...don't use notepad :)
Matt
VAN BROECK Jimmy wrote:
Got it on my system also (Windows 2000) I can only think on a bug in Notepad??
-----Original Message-----From: Henrique VIECILI [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: dinsdag 14 september 2004 15:04To: Struts Users Mailing ListSubject: [CURIOUS-OT] 44 bytes in notepad txt file
Hi guys,
today i was creating a single file with a single property on it and got this strange behavior:
1. Opened notepad.exe2. Wrote this line: html.src.img.procura=imagens/botProcurar.gif3. Saved the file: html.properties4. Opened html.properties and 'voilà'... the characters were shown as black rectangles (!!!)
The curious thing is that if I open the file with MSWord or WordPad it show the line correctly, if I open with some Hex editor it shows the hex code and the correct line value, but in other editors like notepad and textpad it shows the black rectangles. This only occurs when the file is 44 bytes long.
Java reads the file normally.
Maybe something to do with character encoding?! but does notepad handle character encodings??
Does anyone here knows whats going on? Henrique Viecili
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